Tuner is a podcast about music hosted by Brian Barone and John Lagomarsino. We go inside your favorite pop songs to find out what makes them tick, and why we really like them. New episodes released every other Monday.

Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is arguably the greatest pop song ever. And it's definitely the scariest. This Halloween, we thought we'd take a crack at finding out what makes it so spooky, and why we can't stop listening to it.

If there's one pop song practically everybody loves, it'd have to be "Single Ladies." In this episode, we listen for what makes that song so great. As we find out, "Single Ladies" might be more about what it doesn't do than what it does.

On this, our first episode, we take apart Walk The Moon’s “Shut Up and Dance” to try to find out why we like it so much. That search takes us through music history, theory, and nostalgia to get at what makes this song so catchy.